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KITTITAS VALLEY EVENT CENTER FACILITIES LEASE AGREEMENT This Agreement made and dated this .z./r. d ay ofJ ~ ,2016 by and between KITTITAS COUNTY as lessor, hereafter referred to as "County", and the ELLENSBURG RODEO ASSOClA TION, hereinafter referred to as "Lessee" or "Association", wherein the Parties agrees as follows: 1. TERMS: For consideration of the rental herein specified and the covenants herein stated, the County herewith leases to the Lessee the foIlowing portion ofthe Kittitas County Fairgrounds; hereinafter the "leased premises", commonly known as the "Rodeo Grounds". The "Rodeo Grounds" and associated properties and locations as described: the Rodeo arena, all grandstands (but not including the rooms or facilities under the main/south grandstand), covered and uncovered seating around the Rodeo arena (including that portion of land upon which the Association's 800-seat temporary bleachers are located), the track surrounding the Rodeo Arena, all facilities, fixed equipment and the grounds enclosed by the track, all associated stock pens surrounding the arena, the Gold Buckle building, the Western Village, all barns presently lying North and East of the Rodeo Arena (Director's Barn, Dinner Bell Handicap Bam, and Posse Barns), the fenced parking immediately West of the 8th Avenue entrance, the parking area directly North of the Rodeo Grounds (bounded on the South by 8th Street, the North by the alley between 8th and 9 th Streets, East by Alder Street and on the West by 1009 E. 8th Street, otherwise known as Lots 9, 10, and I I of Block 90); and such rights, conditions and limitations as may have been reserved by the County in that instrument dated the 5 th of January 1933 and recorded in Volume 52 of Records of Deeds to a) portion of Craig Avenue and Patrick Avenue and Reed Park between the water tower and the American Legion Hall; and b) the hillside road leading from the top of Craig's Hill to the Rodeo Arena track. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN FACILITES: The lease for the property described as: the area East of Alder Street, North of the lot currently owned by the Ellensburg Rodeo, and immediately South of the John Wayne Trail, which serves to accommodate the Native Americans present at the Rodeo, shall be included in the Terms and Conditions of this Agreement. 3. PURPOSE: The Lessee shall use the premises only for the following purpose: Lessee will conduct a professional Rodeo and other such activities as the Association shall choose in conjunction therewith including but not limited to "slack performances", bull riding, night shows, concessions, "Behind the Chutes", souvenir sales and the operation of areas of general public entertainment on the above described premises for the period of the lease as described herein. 4. RENTAL FEES: The Association shall pay to the County as rent for the annual period of occupancy, the total sum of $50,000.00 for the first year of the lease, to be paid, on or before October 1, 2017. The annual payment for each subsequent year will be determ ined by the County and noticed to the Association in the following manner: at the beginning of each new Ellensburg Rodeo Association Contract January I, 2017 through December 31, 2019